The Franklin Rock’n’Roll Club

The Franklin Rock’n’Roll Club is based in Leith, Scotland and we promote live gigs featuring only the very best local and international rock’n’roll bands. Primitive surf, psychotic fuzzed up high-octane garage punk, raved up rhythm’n’ blues or Bo Diddley-fied punk rock…we have it all.

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Previous Franklin Rock’n’Roll Club nights have been honoured with visits from bands such as the current kings of wyld rave up R’n’B ‘Les Grys-Grys’, furious fuzz pedalled rock’n’roll from ‘The Courettes’, and hula hooping horn honking from ‘Oh!Gunquit’ and several visits from punk-rock illuminatae such as ‘The Masonics’ and ‘The Wildebeests’. ‘The Bonnevilles’ tear the place apart when they are in town. We also regularly feature live gigs from top local bands like ‘Fanny Pelmet & The Bastard Suits’, ‘Geek Maggot Bingo’, ‘Logan’s Close’, and ‘The Phlegm’.

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Every year we organise FranklinFest a three day festival of garage-punk, beat, surf and rock’n’roll bands. We promote local bands, dedicating one afternoon to local talent, and bands from across Europe. Take a look at some video footage from FranklinFest 2015 and FranklinFest 2016 and FranklinFest 2017.

This is held at various venues across Edinburgh over a weekend in the summer.

Check out Les Grys-Grys who popped over from France and ‘raved up’ FranklinFest2016.

FREE ENTRY. The Thanes are happy to announce the release of a new 45 on Baltimore's Hidden Volume Records. To mark the occasion we've asked the fabulous Those Unfortunates to come all the way from London town to entertain you too! Enjoy ... See more